Two small articles from the web-site of Il Piccolo tonight to catch your attention:
"In Trieste, in the bay of San Giusto the jellyfish, called locally "marine barrels" have reappeared" followed by a little further down:
In Genoa, in a restuarant called "Slow Fi...

Just watched the Eurovision Song Contest, quarter finals. Strange, but 90% ofthe songs were ballads. Only one or two you could call rock and roll modern pop.
However, I heard and saw nothing to set the blood running. Some songs were near porn and in one they e...

My dad Keith was in Trieste as part of BETFOR 1950-51. He died in 2006 but it wasn't until after my Mum died that I found a folder of information including a BETFOR members list with a number of names highlighted and some very small copies of photos with Dad either...

My father served with the RASC in Trieste around 1947 - I am visiting Trieste in July and I wonder if there are still buildings standing that would have been used by the RASC at that time. Thanks for any help that you can give me.

Thank you Harry for showing again the stage left Jerry cyclists.I wonder if their training inluded firing on the move?Perhaps rhey could rest their rifles on the shoulders of the guy in front.
I needed some light relief today.Although I have a pair of hearing aids I...

Headlines in the Il Piccolo website tonight:
THE CHAOS IN MACEDONIA FRIGHTENS THE EUROPEAN UNION.
Apparently, there seems to be the risk of a civil war breaking out. There was an invasion of the Parliament the other day and dozens of members were injured, two o...

Hello All,
I stumbled across this website whilst doing some research for my father. I am trying to find information relating to his cousin William (Billy) Edgar who was killed in an accident at Trieste on 16th December 1949. As far as I know he was shot by his fri...

A few days ago I received a pone call from a chap called Gordon Baxter, member 179 of the Association, ex RAOC, who informed me that he had made a video for a fella called Luca Maiser in Trieste about the time he had spent as a squaddie in the city.. Strangely enou...

The main website is unavailable temporariy.
The Domain name expired yesterday but all the website charges "recurr" automatically. For some reason this was not done. It can all be revived fairly easily but I need to do some sorting and at present I'm sitting here in...

Another surprise.The so called Grand National has been and gone and all the horses have escaped with their lives.The Animal Aid Society says the industry sends around one thousand horses each year to be slaughtered presumably for pet food.I wonder how many of our mem...

The obligation to pay for a visit to a doctor and a visit to the day hospital has begun.
The Fvg council has now aligned itself with other regions and has introduced payment for treatment until now given freely. A cost of up to 56 euro for the most onerous tests...

CRONACA LOCALE
Controlli anti-terrorismo, incubo code alla frontiera Slovenia-Croazia
From Il Piccolo web site tonite. Local news.
Anti-terrorism controls on the border of Slovenia and Croatia causing great problems with the traffic. Long queues building u...

Greetings to all our readers. The committee met in CARDIFF and the reunion will be at the CLAYTON HOTEL from 17th to 19th March 2017.
Full details will be in the next BETFOR JOURNAL which will be with you all before Christmas.
The 11 floor hotel is 123 metres fro...

Les Walker has moved from York to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London (Chelsea Pensioner).
If anyone who lives in or travels to London and wants to have a look around
contact Les and he will arrange for them to have a tour of Royal Hospital
Chelsea

Good Morning All – I trust that you all had an enjoyable Christmas, and that this year of 2017 treats you kindly. My apologies for missing the last two Sunday’s postings – blame it on the hustle and bustle of the Festive Season.
We enjoyed a quie...

The proposed visit to Trieste this year.I think it should be moved to September to cover the 70th Anniversary that is being held on the 16th of September.Please let me know if you are interested in attending.

Gleaned from the web-site of Il Piccolo today.
In a small village called Lucoves, near to San Daniele del Carso, a man has decapitated his brother and his grandmother and then tried to burn their heads. He has been arrested and is in custody. There are photogr...

National Service swept up men from all sort of back-grounds and it has always seemed to me that the widest - and sometimes the weirdest - variety seemed to gravitate to the Intelligence Corps. I'm proposing to tell you about a few who were in TSO. Apart from those w...

(Extraction from the web-site of the Triestine newspaper Il Piccolo of14 March 2017).
The Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia will pay for armoured doors and protection against burglary.
The way is opened for contributions destined to make more secure the habitations...

Last night on the Il Piccolo website the following appeared:
Steals a bicycle, released from prison, and steals another. Recidivism immediately after being released from the Coroneo (prison in Trieste) where he had spent two nights for stealing a bicycle: brou...

Taken from the Piazza Unita webcam just a few minutes ago. It's been warm and sunny here.
Remember the song ? "We are the d-day dodgers in sunny Italy"
Good to hear from you Paula. Your idea echoes that of William Shortland.

Tonite, BBC 4, 2200 hours. The return of the Young Montanaro. Lasts nearly two hours. Hopefully still in Italian with English sub-titles. That should help me have a peaceful nights rest after having viewed one of the best detective series on TV.

As a recent member having found you less than 2 years ago whilst trying to find out information on my late father's time in Italy and Trieste I have met some amazing people. Thanks to those in John Barron's Southampton group, who welcomed me and my husband with open...

Two days and no one as anything to say????. I am looking out of the window and seeing a beautiful morning and thinking what I have to do to day then I remember I have to do some washing and ironing I have let it accumulate the last few days.If this does not get some...

What follows is an excerpt from a short article that appeared in the Daily Mail letters section on Friday last. Obviously, it is copyright of that paper so I will not repeat the complete article. This appeared in the Peterborough column of the letters page.
Qu...

Portillo started in Vienna and there was a lot about the Hapsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There were archive photos of chaps in those silly hats with white feathers sprouting out of the tops. He then travelled on the railway to Graz.
Tonight at 6.30 he g...